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One of our most recent board alerts asked whether or not sketching was still relevant in this design day and age. This time around, pdog followed up and asked, "Is Model Making Important?"

With so much sophisticated 3D modeling software available to students and professionals, is hands-on model making to be left in the dust?

Think back to those moments perhaps in school or at work when, after you've gone through several iterations, refined your idea in CAD, when you were hacking away at your foam model and had one of those "ah-hah" moments that led you to a better design solution than what you started with. How important is prototyping and fabricating for you?

So what do you think? Is Model Making Important?